UNRRA COUNCIL MEETS

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24366, 19 September 1944, Page 3

UNRRA COUNCIL MEETS

ACTIVITIES OF FULLY FUNCTIONING BODY (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) MONTREAL. Sept. 17. Welcoming the delegates at the opening of the second session of the Council of UNRRA, the United States Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation operations (Mr H. H. Lehman) said the Allied military successes had caused the administration to concentrate its energies increasingly on the final stages. In preparation for its task, the Montreal session would consider the activities of the fully functioning body. The Canadian Minister to Washington (Mr L. B. Pearson) was elected chairman. ' , ■ . ~ The Montreal correspondent pf the New York “Times’’ says the difficult issues include relief for Italy as a former enemy, relations between UNRRA, the military authorities, and the various Governments concerned in repatriating those who have been displaced, and also details of supplies. According to the Associated Press of America the European members, led by Norway, propose solidly to oppose relief for Italy, emphasising that Allied relief for Italy would leave the way open for relief for Germany. The New Zealand delegate (Mr C. A. Berendsen) told the Canadian press that although the Dominion was rationing eggs one a person weekly it was prepared to continue general rationing after the war to assist in rehabilitating the war-torn world.